Erfurt Trade Fair
Call for Entries for the 3D Pioneers Challenge 2024
The 3D Pioneers Challenge, the international competition and platform for additive manufacturing and pioneering technologies, is launching its ninth Call for Entries.
We are looking for creative innovations with long-term appeal, as well as operational projects that promote the implementation of additive technologies in the established manufacturing industry.
The award will be presented as part of Rapid.Tech 3D, which will give additive technologies a stage in Erfurt for the 20th time from May 14 to 16, 2024 and provide significant impetus for the industry.
Focus 3DPC2024 - Collaborative Mindset
Pioneering methods, materials and processes are creating ground-breaking applications for additive manufacturing, thus creating opportunities for the economy, industry and sustainability, for responsible production.
Implementation in the established manufacturing industry requires a "collaborative mindset" - the mutual, open attitude of working cooperatively and courageously towards common goals. Where are realistic applications in the industry and what best practices are already being implemented?
This open mindset can already be felt in the merging of advanced technologies. When robotics, smart materials, cloud technologies or blockchain interact with additive processes, this leads to disruptive concepts and sharpens the focus on strategic change and a meaningful path.
A look at the impressively dynamic developments in the field of artificial intelligence, such as automated image generation, gives an idea of what can be possible when AI creates three-dimensional products that are then translated from the digital to the real world using additive processes.
The 3D Pioneers Challenge seeks out and supports the pioneers who are pursuing precisely these ground-breaking approaches. The competition is organized in eleven disciplines, which are derived from the questions "WHAT, HOW and WHY... we design and make". For 2024, these are the categories Design, Digital, Architecture, FashionTech, Materials, MedTech, Mobility, Electronics, Machinery, Industrial and Sustainability. In line with the ongoing growth of the 3D printing industry towards industrial applications, the new Industrial category opens up precisely in this direction.
Submissions are possible until March 11, 2024.
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